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Proceeding contribution from Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 24 May 2011. It occurred during Urgent question on Libya.


Libya

I say again that this is simply an option that is being considered, and the detail of how exactly these things would be organised has not yet been worked up. It is not the intention that the helicopters would land. The intention is that they would be deployed, if at all, from naval assets, most probably from HMS Ocean, but that is the sort of detail that is being worked through at present as the option is worked up and considered. It certainly should not be inferred that there is any intention to use helicopters in order to land ground troops and take off in a different direction.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
528 c786 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Armed conflict Libya International cooperation Helicopters Parliamentary scrutiny Military aircraft UN resolutions NATO Military intervention
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk